"Nightjar" wrote in message
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On 10-Sep-16 10:46 PM, BillD wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:
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Well, he wrote it all down in Mein Kampf, so plenty of people had no
excuse.

They did have the excuse that it was virtually unreadable. He did put just
about all his plans in it,

He never said that he planned to militarily invade
all of europe that he could get away with invading,
or even that he would go to war with russia either.

And never mentioned that he would kill all the jews either.

In fact even when he was killing as many jews as he could,
he didnt even make it clear that he was actually doing that.

but often in terms that are only understandable with the benefit of
hindsight.

He never said in Mein Kampf that he was going to occupy most of Europe or
kill all the Jews he could either.

He declared his belligerence towards France, his intent to unify the
German speaking peoples

That is nothing even remotely like occupying most of europe.

and gave his plans for Lebensraum,

Yes.

which required the invasion of Russia.

Nope. There was plenty of room for that without invading russia.

He also declared his hatred of Jews

Yes, but even when he was killing as many of those as he
could, he didnt even make it clear that he was doing that.

Same with the killing of the intellectually disabled and cripples etc
either.

and the following seems to be a fairly good guide to what he had in mind
for 'inferior' people:

'the nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all
the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international
poisoners are exterminated'

That last bit is just rhetoric.

However, his comments about Jews and non-whites and his more belligerent
utterances were largely omitted from the Nazi Party approved English
translation of 1933.

And even when he was killing as many as he could,
that was never made clear to the german people.